Tower Hamlets Council Small Grants Fund: Loneliness in the UK

Deadline: 15-Aug-22

The East End Community Foundation (EECF) has announced Tower Hamlets Council Small Grants Fund: Loneliness with an aim of this theme is to reduce the impact of loneliness and social isolation on the residents of the borough.

The Council is seeking to fund activities that will help ensure that Tower Hamlets is a welcoming and friendly place, where people of all ages and backgrounds have opportunities to connect with each other in enjoyable, fun, and life-enhancing ways.

They know that loneliness deeply affects people in Tower Hamlets and there are factors in Tower Hamlets that increase vulnerability to loneliness such as low incomes and the dense urban environment. One of the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic has been to make people feel more isolated from each other and many surveys have identified an increase in reported loneliness.

Funding Information

Grants of up to £1,000
Grants of up to £5,000

What They Will Fund?

Funding can be used flexibly but is primarily intended to cover revenue costs. Funds can be used to fund a whole project or to pay for elements of a wider project there must be a quantifiable contribution to the proposed activity either in cash (other funding) or in kind (volunteer time, rent free premises etc). However, they do not require match funding.

Eligibility Criteria

Organisations with an annual turnover in excess of £250,000 are not eligible to apply to this fund.
The fund is open to all voluntary and community organisations. These are defined as;
- Registered charities
- Community groups
- Community associations
- Tenants and residents’ groups
- Green spaces friends’ groups
- Co-operatives and social enterprises
- School/parent groups which are independent of the schools they work with
- Faith organisations
- Sports, environmental, arts and heritage organisations
- Grant making trusts
- Housing associations
- Un-constituted groups of residents working together to make a difference in their local communities
They cannot accept applications from;
- For-profit organisations
- Individuals seeking funding for personal benefit, or sole traders
- Organisations based outside the UK